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As immigration and mobility increases, so do interactions between people from different linguistic backgrounds. Yet while linguistic diversity offers many benefits, it also comes with a number of challenges. In seven empirical articles and one commentary, this Special Issue addresses some of the most significant language challenges facing researchers in the 21st century: the power language has to form and perpetuate stereotypes, the contribution language makes to intersectional identities, and the role of language in shaping intergroup relations. By presenting work that aims to shed light on some of these issues, the goal of this Special Issue is to (a) highlight language as integral to social processes and (b) inspire researchers to address the challenges we face. To keep pace with the world’s constantly evolving linguistic landscape, it is essential that we make progress toward harnessing language’s power in ways that benefit 21st century globalized societies.
In this Paper, we describe a schema and models which have been developed for the representation of corpora of computer-mediated communicatin (CMC corpora) using the representation framework provided by the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). We characterise CMC discourse as dialogic, sequentially organised interchange between humans and point out that many features of CMC are not adequately handled by current corpus encoding schemas and tools. We formulate desiderata for a representation of CMC in encoding schemes and argue why the TEI is a suitable framework for the encoding of CMC corpora. We propose a model of basic CMC units (utterances, posts, and nonverbal activities) and the macro- and micro-level structures of interactions in CMC environments. Based on these models, we introduce CMC-core, a TEI customisation for the encoding of CMC corpora, which defines CMC-specific encoding features on the four levels of elements, model classes, attribute classes, and modules of the TEI infrastructure. The description of our customisation is illustrated by encoding examples from corpora by researchers of the TEI SIG CMC, representing a variety of CMC genres, i.e. chat, wiki talk, twitter, blog, and Second Life interactions. The material described, i.e. schemata, encoding examples, and documentation, is available from the of the TEI CMC SIG Wiki and will accompany a feature request to the TEI council in late 2019.
Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) experience a variety of symptoms sometimes including atypicalities in language use. The study explored diferences in semantic network organisation of adults with ASD without intellectual impairment. We assessed clusters and switches in verbal fuency tasks (‘animals’, ‘human feature’, ‘verbs’, ‘r-words’) via curve ftting in combination with corpus-driven analysis of semantic relatedness and evaluated socio-emotional and motor action related content. Compared to participants without ASD (n=39), participants with ASD (n=32) tended to produce smaller clusters, longer switches, and fewer words in semantic conditions (no p values survived Bonferroni-correction), whereas relatedness and content were similar. In ASD, semantic networks underlying cluster formation appeared comparably small without afecting strength of associations or content.
This article makes an empirical and a methodological contribution to the comparative study of action. The empirical contribution is a comparative study of three distinct types of action regularly accomplished with the turn format du meinst x (“you mean/think x”) in German: candidate understandings, formulations of the other’s mind, and requests for a judgment. These empirical materials are the basis for a methodological exploration of different levels of researcher abstraction in the comparative study of action. Two levels are examined: the (coarser) level of conditionally relevant responses (what a response speaker must do to align with the action of the prior turn) and the (finer) level of “full alignment” (what a response speaker can do to align with the action of a prior turn). Both levels of abstraction provide empirically viable and analytically interesting descriptive concepts for the comparative study of action. Data are in German.
In Theaterproben entwickeln Beteiligte gemeinsam eine Inszenierung, die zur Aufführung gebracht wird. Ein wesentliches Mittel dazu ist das Vorspielen von Teilen des Stücks und das anschließende Besprechen. Dies geschieht üblicherweise in Rollenteilung: Die Schauspielenden führen Teile des Stücks vor, während die Regie zuschaut und gegebenenfalls interveniert, woran sich Besprechungen anschließen können. Dieser Teil von Theaterproben, in dem abwechselnd vorgespielt und besprochen wird, haben wir Spielprobe genannt (siehe Einleitung zu diesem Themenheft). Eine wesentliche interaktionsorganisatorische Aufgabe von Spielproben besteht für die Beteiligten darin, Schauspielaktivitäten und Besprechungsaktivitäten miteinander zu verzahnen. Dies geschieht durch Transitionspraktiken, die das Spiel entweder unterbrechen oder wieder eröffnen. Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht Transitionspraktiken in Spielproben als ein konstitutives Moment ihrer interaktiven Organisation. Fokussiert werden Praktiken, die das Spiel unterbrechen, so genannte Interventionen. Nach einer detaillierten Fallanalyse, die eine prototypische Transition vom Spiel ins Besprechen und zurück ins Spiel veranschaulicht (Kap. 4.1/4.2), widmet sich der Rest des Beitrags der Analyse einer Kollektion von Interventionen. Es zeigt sich, dass Interventionen normativen Orientierungen unterliegen und verwendete Praktiken hinsichtlich verschiedener Dimensionen (etwa Ursache/Grund der Intervention) systematisch variieren.
T-Shirt Lexicography
(2020)
This article presents a study of graphic inscriptions on garments such as T-shirts, inscriptions that resemble entries in general monolingual dictionaries of German. Referred to here as "T-shirt lexicography," the collected material is analyzed in terms of its form, content, and function, focusing on lexicographical aspects. T-shirt lexicography is an example of vernacular lexicography inasmuch as different lexicographical traditions are assumed (correctly as well as erroneously) by the (unknown) authors, but also adapted to their specific needs.
Zwischen den Jahren oder eine Zeit zwischen den Zeiten. Sprachliche Betrachtungen zur "Normalität"
(2020)
Historiquement, les variétés germaniques de la Moselle-Est (ancienne région Lorraine) font partie du continuum dialectal de l’allemand. Après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, leur utilisation (y compris celle de l’allemand standard) a été fortement réprimée et la francisation résolument poursuivie. Depuis quelques décennies maintenant, des efforts ont été faits pour élever les dialectes de la Moselle-Est au statut de langue indépendante afin de marquer une distance par rapport à la langue allemande, de permettre leur identification et de pouvoir les réutiliser. Le paysage linguistique donne une bonne indication de la manière dont coexistent les différents groupes linguistiques et une indication sur le statut de leurs langues. Dans le cadre d’une analyse qualitative, les contextes d’apparition, les fonctions et les auteurs des éléments linguistiques visibles dans l’espace public en allemand standard et dialectal seront discutés pour la Moselle-Est. Il s’avère qu’ils constituent des exceptions notables, distribuées de manière significative. L’allemand (standard) apparaît dans les inscriptions historiques ainsi que dans le domaine des relations internationales, et est donc implicitement exogénéisé. En revanche, on trouve le dialecte (appelé « platt ») dans des contextes ayant des références locales et portant sur des aspects identitaires.